Socrata was a business-to-government software company that sold an open data platform whose goal was to help civic developers build apps more efficiently.

Initially known as Blist, Socrata was introduced as an online database software service provider at the DEMO 2008 conference.

[6] A majority of the employees joined Tyler and the offices in Seattle and Washington D.C. remained open.

[7] In 2019, Motorola Solutions parted ways with Socrata after a three-and-a-half-years ending access to open crime APIs across the USA.

[9] In July 2014, Socrata launched the Open Data Network, a machine learning-powered initiative aimed at promoting data-centered collaboration between the public and private sectors.